Carol Cadd; Carol Brown; Brown Eye; Enisa BrownEyes; Michelle Clayton; Kevin Fox; Seka Mulalic; Sam Lamley-Browne AS WE REFLECT ON TODAY’S ANNOUNCEMENT THAT CHARLES MANSON HAS GAINED A ‘LICENCE’ TO MARRY 26 YEAR OLD ‘STAR’, IT MIGHT SEEM PRUDENT TO HIGHLIGHT THE HORROR OF THIS REAL LIFE MONSTER AND HIS FOLLOWERS, IN PARTICULAR THE DISGUSTING MURDER OF PREGNANT ACTRESS SHARON TATE IN 1969. Charles Milles Manson (born November 12, 1934) is an American criminal and musician who led what became known as the Manson Family, a quasi-commune that arose in the California desert, in the late 1960s. In 1971 he was found guilty of conspiracy to commit the murders of seven people, actress Sharon Tate and four other people at Tates home, and the next day, a married couple, Leno and Rosemary LaBianca, all carried out by members of the group at his instruction. Manson believed in what he called Helter Skelter, a term he took from the song of the same name by the Beatles. Manson believed Helter Skelter to be an impending apocalyptic race war, which he described in his own version of the lyrics to the Beatles song. He believed his murders would help precipitate that war. At the time the Family began to form, Manson was an unemployed former convict, who had spent half of his life in correctional institutions for a variety of offenses. In October 1951, on a psychiatrists recommendation, Manson was transferred to Natural Bridge Honor Camp, a minimum security institution. Less than a month before a scheduled February 1952 parole hearing, he took a razor blade and held it against another boys throat while Manson sodomized him. Manson was transferred to the Federal Reformatory, Petersburg, Virginia, where he was considered dangerous. Before the murders, he was a singer-songwriter on the fringe of the Los Angeles music industry, chiefly through a chance association with Dennis Wilson, a founding member and the drummer of the Beach Boys. After Manson was charged with the crimes of which he was later convicted, recordings of songs written and performed by him were released commercially. Various musicians, including Guns N Roses, White Zombie and Marilyn Manson, have covered some of his songs. THE TATE MURDER. On August 8, 1969, Tate was two weeks from giving birth. During the night, they were murdered by members of Charles Mansons family and their bodies discovered the following morning by Tates housekeeper. Police arrived at the scene to find the body of a young man, later identified as Steven Parent, shot dead in his car, which was in the driveway. Inside the house, the bodies of Tate and Sebring were found in the living room; a long rope tied around each of their necks connected them. On the front lawn lay the bodies of Frykowski and Folger. All of the victims, except Parent, had been stabbed numerous times. The coroners report for Tate noted that she had been stabbed sixteen times, and that five of the wounds were in and of themselves fatal. Tate had pleaded to be allowed to live long enough to have her baby, and even offered herself as a hostage in an attempt to save the life of her unborn child; her killers would have none of it. Tate, who was stabbed 16 times while Tate cried, Mother ... mother ... as she was being killed. Manson had told the women to leave a sign ... something witchy”. Using the towel that had bound one of the Manson members wrote pig on the houses front door, in Tates blood.
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